Normal behavior ??

This is my cv. Ruthie. She's been doing fine, except that when I bought her, I potted her into too large of a pot.
I decided not to repot her down again and she was just sitting there until.........
about a week ago she sprouted a new vine from the nub ( what's the correct word for that ? )
where a leaf once was !!

She ( sorry, since it's 'Ruthie' I guess I just think of her as a she :) ) stopped growing at the tip
of the vine right after I repotted her and now instead has sent out this new vine...

And I was wondering, should I trim the tip of the original vine so that it can start growing again ?
It tried about 3 times to restart and then gave up growing.


Any thoughts on if this is normal or not...

Oh, and here is the tip of the original vine that kept trying
and finally stopped growing, period.
Should I trim it ? What say you ?

Paul, personally, I don't cut anything off of a hoya unless its clearly dead. I don't know if that's common practice, but I figure if its alive, it won't hurt to leave it there, as unlovely as it might be.

If I was you, I would repot Ruthie down into a smaller pot; I have had a few hoyas eventually die in a too-large pot, even after a bit of new growth. In fact my first eriostemma died that way (H.sussella).

Hope this helps, its just my two cents.

Christine

Thanks Christine. I'm a little afraid to upset her now that she's growing. I guess
I'll just have to wait a little and see what happens !

Paula